Volador alita

description

Smallwing Flyingfish. To 22 cm (8.7 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); central Baja California (28 ° 10 ’ N, 115 ° 54 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2008) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Collette in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Allen and Robertson 1994). Epipelagic; depth: surface to 6 m (20 ft) (min.: Watson in Moser 1996; max.: Fricke et al. 2019).

Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

distribution

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 3, 5. — General distribution: East Africa east to Panama, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia, 0 – 6 m depth. Marine.

Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records

materials_examined

Status at New Ireland. Originally described from Carteret Harbour, New Ireland as Exocoetus micropterus by Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes (1847: 127), based on MNHN material; subsequently reported as Oxyporhamphus argenteus from Cape Lambert-Kalili Harbour and near Cape St. George, New Ireland, by Munro (1958: 138); reported from New Hanover and islands in Namatanai District by Parin et al. (1980: fig. 47 opposite p. 154).

Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records

Notes

Fig. 7 The COI sequence for DL319 was 99.83% identical to sequences of Oxyporhamphus micropterus (Valenciennes 1847) (MZ892547.1; MZ050602.1, voucher FIFP2021-seq16; MZ028360.1), corroborating morphological identification of the egg. DL315 was identified, based on morphological similarity to DL319. This genus is widespread in the surface waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indo-Pacific Oceans, O micropterus occurring in Western Atlantic, Eastern Pacific and Indo-Pacific Oceans and Oxyporhamphus similis Bruun 1935 occurring in Western and Eastern Atlantic Oceans (Collette 2004, Fricke et al. 2024). Adults have been recorded from Clipperton Atoll (Fourriére et al. 2014). Based on COI sequences, eggs and larvae have been recorded from the Ninety East Ridge of the eastern Indian Ocean (Zhang et al. 2021) and larvae have been recorded from Hawaiian waters (Xing et al. 2022). Eggs are characterised by short, numerous, pointed spines on the chorion (Ahlstrom and Moser 1980).

Checklist of ichthyoplankton of NORI-D polymetallic nodule exploration claim (eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone) during winter 2021